OpenEuphoria

2. Re: how does value() return an atom??

• Posted by LarryMiller Mar 02, 2011
• 1528 views

Actually value() always returns a sequence. [http://openeuphoria.org/docs/std_get.html#_2214_value]

4. Re: how does value() return an atom??

• Posted by Jerry_Story Mar 02, 2011
• 1503 views

global function my_value(object x)  -- substitute for Euphoria's value() 
atom a 
sequence v 
 
  if atom(x) then 
    a = 0 
  else 
    v = value(x) 
    if v[1] = GET_SUCCESS then 
      a = v[2] 
    else 
      a = 0 
    end if 
  end if 
  return(a) 
end function    -- my_value() 

The above code always worked before. Now I'm getting this error message:

"type_check failure, v is 7"

It makes no sense to me. How is this possible?

6. Re: how does value() return an atom??

• Posted by Jerry_Story Mar 03, 2011
• 1489 views

v = value(x)

puts(1, "hello ... " & x & "\n")
prints:
hello ... 7

8. Re: how does value() return an atom??

• Posted by Jerry_Story Mar 03, 2011
• 1493 views

Yup. But it's supposed to return a sequence.

10. Re: how does value() return an atom??

• Posted by Jerry_Story Mar 03, 2011
• 1492 views

Yup that was it. I changed the code as follows:

include std/get.e as stdget  -- include std/get.e 
-- 
-- 
    v = stdget:value(x)  -- v = value(x) 

And then the problem vanished.

I found this in Irv's GtkEngine.e.

override function value(object x) -- replacement for Eu's value() 

Could that cause the problem? It didn't before.

12. Re: how does value() return an atom??

• Posted by Jerry_Story Mar 03, 2011
• 1367 views

The previous time I ran the program. The date on it is November 15, 2010.